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BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Julie Hirschfeld Davis |
Debt Challenge Makes for Two Lonely Republicans As a deadline nears, lawmakers Kevin McCarthy and Tom Coburn urge their colleagues to get serious about the debt |
BusinessWeek April 6, 2011 Przybyla & Armstrong |
The Audacity of Paul Ryan His plan would privatize Medicare, cut taxes, and cap social spending. |
BusinessWeek May 26, 2011 Drake Bennett |
Grover Norquist, the Enforcer For decades, the Americans for Tax Reform founder has locked in lawmakers to oppose new taxes. The deficit debate is his greatest triumph -- and biggest test. |
BusinessWeek April 13, 2011 Peter Coy |
Washington Plays Chicken With the Debt Forcing a U.S. default is no small matter, yet many Americans say they want just that. It's time for cooler heads on Capitol Hill to step up and lead |
BusinessWeek February 3, 2011 Lisa Lerer |
The Tea Party: Playing Chicken with Debt The White House and congressional Republicans draw lines in the sand |
BusinessWeek March 4, 2010 James Rowley |
Wisconsin's Paul Ryan: Congressman and Calculator His combination of math and politics, including a proposal to privatize Medicare and Social Security, has made him a go-to Republican. |
Investment Advisor February 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
Ryan Reveals GOP Budget Agenda to Investment Advisor New House Budget Committee Chair says Dodd-Frank, health care, spending all in play. |
BusinessWeek February 17, 2011 Mike Dorning |
Obama's Budget and Its Discontents To Republican free-market purists, Obama's 2012 budget priorities smack of Keynesian interventionism. |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Julie Hirschfeld Davis |
Obama's Trump Card on Oil Subsidies The President (again) calls for cutting oil industry tax breaks |
BusinessWeek November 17, 2010 Coy & Przybyla |
Debt and Taxes: Will America Ever Grow Up? Two new proposals to get serious about the U.S. budget deficit are colliding with the same old dysfunctional politics. |
BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 Howard Gleckman |
The Beltway Battle Ahead If Bush is willing to deal, he'll have a chance to fix Social Security, say both Democratic and Republican insiders. But he'll need to build bridges with Democrats and sell economic conservatives on compromise. |
BusinessWeek December 2, 2010 Przybyla & Faler |
Deficits and Debt as Far as the Eye Can See Neither the President's panel nor the most hawkish budget-cutters would balance the federal budget for decades to come. |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2011 Gary Cassady |
How to Trade Budget Cuts With the economy still in such dire straits, it is unclear exactly what effect spending cuts will have on the recovering economy. |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2010 Paula Dwyer |
How the Political Gridlock in Washington Might End Anger at Washington and midterm elections are driving both parties to recalibrate their self-interest. A tentative bipartisanship is emerging. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Ilan Moscovitz |
Next Stop: Economic Armageddon? What failure to raise the debt ceiling means. |
BusinessWeek May 19, 2011 Laura Litvan |
Lobbyists Mobilize to Preserve Tax Breaks Nurses, farmers, defense contractors, and others are fighting to protect tax breaks and programs dear to them. |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
BusinessWeek October 21, 2010 Heidi Przybyla |
Alice Rivlin's Bid to Cut the Deficit Alice M. Rivlin's shadow commission to trim spending, without any political candidates, goes where the real commission dare not. |
BusinessWeek January 13, 2011 Albert R. Hunt et al. |
Tax Reform Is in the Eye of the Beholder Obama wants any tax overhaul to trim the deficit or be revenue neutral. |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Tackett & Dorning |
Voters to Republicans: Don't Get Too Comfortable The lesson of the midterms may be that voters no longer trust incumbents and are willing to keep shifting the balance of power. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2010 Albert R. Hunt |
A Presidency Restored to Health Obama's improbable win on health-care reform is one for the history books and will boost his credibility |
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 Peter Coy |
Health Exchanges: Common Ground for Medicare Reform? Virtual marketplaces where consumers shop for standardized insurance policies may hold the key to bridging divisions between Democrats and Republicans. |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Brian Orelli |
What Bipartisan Health-Care Reform Means for Investors Republicans and Democrats will debate on TV, but little may come of it. |
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 Anna Edney |
The Doctors in the House Have an Agenda Republican physician-lawmakers want to dismantle a Medicare cost-cutting board that could hit doctors in their wallets. |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Runningen & Nichols |
Obama's Budget: Something for Everyone to Hate The President's proposed 2012 spending cuts won't win him a lot of friends |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Lerer & Armstrong |
The Republican Response to Obamacare Republican proposals to control health-care costs would save the government only about $5 billion a year, or 0.6 percent. |
BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Peter Coy |
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts Most economists agree there's little choice but to end tax cuts from George W. Bush's era. That means the fiscal war in Washington is only going to get uglier. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Michael W. Lynch |
Check's in the Mail How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable... |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2011 Morgan Housel |
What You Need to Know About the President's Plan to Save $4 Trillion President Barack Obama laid out a plan to slash $4 trillion from the deficit between now and 2023. Here's roughly how it'll get done. |
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Robert Kuttner |
What Killed Off The GOP Deficit Hawks? The Republicans are now the ones making excuses for big deficits. |
BusinessWeek September 23, 2010 Paula Dwyer |
How Obama Is Getting Ready for 2011 With a likely Republican-controlled House, the President is working on triangulation, revising his team and policy agenda. |
Financial Advisor October 2006 Bruce W. Fraser |
Economic Pin Balls As it stands today, Bush's economic legacy is still uncertain. Is Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. more than a Hail Mary? |
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Rowley & Donmoyer |
What Will Washington's Lame Ducks Do? The issues facing the returning outbound congresspeople, and what to expect. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Weekly Walk of Shame: Partisan Posturing on Health-Care Reform Our portfolios may not like it, but our pocketbooks need health-care reform. |
Investment Advisor November 19, 2010 Melanie Waddell |
GOP House Will Attempt to Rein in Health Care, Dodd-Frank Republicans will urge SEC, other regulators, to 'go easy' in interpreting Dodd-Frank |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Drew Armstrong |
Guess Who Opposes Reversing the Individual Mandate in Health Reform? As Republicans take aim at the individual mandate in the health reform law, health-care industry groups are lobbying to preserve it. |
Reason January 2009 Matt Welch |
Obama's Numbers The president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility. |
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Lisa Lerer |
Michele Bachmann Is Demanding a Little More Respect Michele Bachmann's riding her status as Tea Party queen to greater prominence in the GOP. |
BusinessWeek March 11, 2010 Charlie Rose |
Nancy Pelosi: Health-Care Reform Endgame A conversation with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2009 Jane Sasseen |
Health-Care Reform's Hidden Taxes Why a lot of health reform's costs could be borne by the middle class, despite Obama's pledges. |
Investment Advisor October 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Healthcare Reform Picks Up Momentum Healthcare reform is still moving ahead, despite opposition from Republicans and well-covered populist discontent over the plan. |
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Heidi Przybyla |
Social Security Gets a Reprieve--for Now Obama may put off Social Security reform until a hoped-for second term, unless Republicans take the initiative. |
National Defense October 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
President's Half-Trillion Dollar Jobs Plan Muddies the Defense Budget Waters What one wonders though is how the new requirement to "pay for" the Jobs Bill will affect defense spending. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Alex Wayne |
The GOP Eyes Defunding Health Reform The House Republican plan to deny funds to Obama's health overhaul could be difficult and risky. |
BusinessWeek April 13, 2011 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan Congressman Ryan (R-Wis.) gives his immediate reaction to President Obama's Apr. 13 speech on U.S. debt -- and defends his own budget plan |
The Motley Fool August 5, 2011 Morgan Housel |
What the Debt Deal Might Do to the Economy Probably nothing good. |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Howard Gleckman |
Social Security: A Trial Balloon That's Dropping Fast Bush's hints about higher payroll taxes as part of Social Security reform spook supporters and don't sway Dems. |
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 Howard Gleckman |
The Budget: Hey Guys, Get Real President Bush says he wants to cut the deficit in half by 2009. Here's why that's not likely to happen. |
Salon.com September 6, 2001 Jake Tapper |
What vanishing surplus? The Republicans try to ignore budget woes, while the Democrats plot to pin the tail on the elephant... |
BusinessWeek October 13, 2010 Lerer & McCormick |
Why Business Doesn't Trust the Tea Party The Tea Party's small-government slogans may be appealing, but its policies could throw the U.S. economy into chaos. |